Vocabulary Flashcards
Paper currency became exchangeable for gold at a fixed rate.
Gold Standard
This banned Combinations and practices that restrained free trade.
Sherman Antitrust Act
The era from 1870 to 1890 named after Novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
Gilded Age
Last incident of the Indian Wars; it took place in 1890 in the Dakota territory, where the U.S. Calvary killed over 200 Sioux.
Wounded Knee Massacre
The most important Indian Victory took place in June 1876 General George A Custer command of 250 men.
Battle of Little Big Horn
Large farms that covered thousands of acres and employed hundreds of wage labors in the West in the late 19th century
Bonanza Farms
Company’s avoidance of middlemen by producing its own supplies and providing for distribution of its product.
Vertical Integration
Evolution was as natural place in human society as in nature and government must not interfere.
Social Darwinism
A Baptist Minister in New York City were taking shape in writings of Walter Rauschenbusch.
Social Gospel
1880’s witnessed a new wave of labor organizing. Tried to organize unskilled workers.
Knights of Labor
A series of demonstrations, some violent, held nationwide in support of striking railroad workers in Martinsburg, WV who refused to work due to wage cuts.
Great Railroads Strike
“Captain of industry,” whose energy and region pushed the economy forward.
Robber Barons
Companies combined to limit competition
Trusts
the concept of taxing only landowners as a remedy for poverty, promulgated by Henry George in Progress and Poverty
Single Tax
law passed in 1887 meants to encourage adoption of white norms among indians; broke up tribal holdings into small farms for Indian families, with the remainder sold to white purchasers
Daws Act
